In theory, you should not need to have entries in the seedfile for
active discovery, as well as $ entries. Provided automatic discovery is
turned on then the discovery algorithm should find things eventually
unless entries in the seedfile prevent discovery.
However, once you have any wildcard in your seedfile (* ? - ) then the
seedfile will PREVENT discovery of anything that is not specified
explicitly or in a range. I guess it depends on your policy for your
seedfile. As soon as you have any wildcards in your seedfile, then
Ken's example is the way to go.
Cheers,
Jane
Ken Karasek wrote:
Hany,
If you are running v7.1 or later, review the /usr/OV/conf/netmon.seed
file for further information for controlling node discovery. As I
learned, you need to precede any special line entry (lines prefixed
with special character attributes $, !, ^, etc.) with the discovery
entry. This means you need to first discovery the node(s) prior to
assigning a limiting discovery attribute(s). This will ensure
discovery of the node(s), then netmon will create a list of nodes with
special discovery attributes and assign them to the node(s) you
defined.
I have edited an example from the netmon.seed file below to describe
what I was attempting to explain. The nodes are first discovered, then
the attributes are assigned.
SNMP Status Support
#
# Nodes that have serial interface cards will automatically use SNMP
# to query for ifAdminStatus and ifOperStatus for ALL interfaces on
# that node. Specify other nodes you would like to use SNMP to
query
# for status instead of ICMP pings here.
#
# Use the prefix '$', and use the same syntax for ranges and
wildcards
# described above for positive seed entries. For instance,
#
# 1.1.2-10.221-230
# $1.1.2-10.221-230
Hope this helps,
Ken
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Do these commands work in Windows Netview as well?
Carlos
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If you have $ entries in your netmon.seed file then ping should not be
used (unless an operator uses the Test -> Ping menu). The way I usually
check is with the netmon -a commands:
netmon -a 8 shows nodes being status polled with SNMP
netmon -a 12 shows netmon's ping list (if status polls use
SNMP, the first field should be a very large number)
netmon -a 16 shows netmon's SNMP list
All output is in /usr/OV/log/netmon.trace.
Cheers,
Jane
Abadir Hany-O10544 wrote:
>Hello,
>I want to use SNMP only not SNMP and icmp with NetView to prevent
double traffic
>
>I found out that /usr/OV/bin/ovtopodump -rl <device name> returns
some data which contains
>"SNMP STATUS POLL: MAXIMUM TIME" which means that the device is
configured for ICMP requests
>
>My question here: Does this device also configured for SNMP requests
since I added it to the seedfile with $ in the front of the device name ?
>
>The second question is that how I turn the ICMP request off and just
keep the SNMP request?
>
>I guess by issuing the following command Netmon -M0?
>
>Is that right?
>
>
>
>
>
>Regards!
>Hany Abadir
>
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